[ hopefully on the list and able to post to it now, if not please forward ] On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:26:33 +0000 Luke-Jr wrote: | > Yup. We *need* to have an official encoding. Reason being, at least | > one developer has a non-(ASCII as in characters 0..126 only) | | ASCII defines 128 characters: 0-127 | Why cut the last off? As I recall, 127 is flaky. Come to think of it, so is 0-31ish as well. So maybe I should've said [a-zA-Z0-9\-_,.<>?/\\;:'@#~\]{}\+="$%^&* ] or something... Basically, anything even the slightest bit flaky, plus newlines, is prone to explode. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm